If I could get enough blueback to keep full steam from the opening of the sockeye season until the coho run comes--there's nothing to it.
And the Fraser River canneries wonder why sockeye is getting scarce.
But the number one grades, sockeyeand blueback and coho, are short.
I've made a contract for delivery of my entire sockeye and blueback pack," he said.
With the opening of the sockeye season on the Fraser and in the north the Japs abandoned trolling for the gill net.
The cannery opened five days in advance of the sockeye season on the Fraser.
I don't believe we will ever see another big sockeyerun in the Fraser anyway.
The Fraser River run of sockeye has been going downhill.
He states that he has evidence to prove that the original gairdneri was the "nerka," which is the sockeye or blue-back salmon.
The sockeye does not appear to frequent Campbell River.
On the heels of the sockeye come the humpback and the dog salmon, about the same in size, and fine silvery fish before the breeding season sets in.
This is the sockeye run, which is always very large, but varies in different years, every fourth year being an extra large one.
The first news of the approach of the sockeye is generally brought to Vancouver or some other coast city by some sailing ship or steamer which has encountered them in the straits of San Juan or the Gulf of Georgia.
It certainly presents the curious phenomenon of a sockeye run in miniature from the deep waters of the lake into the small streams, where it also turns red and spawns.
It is not known at what age they seek the salt water, nor at what age they return; while in the case of the sockeye their feeding grounds in the Pacific are an unsolved mystery.
A sockeye salmon that entered the Bering Sea at 12 cm in mid-June would be 24 cm long in August--the maximum size that a murre could eat; the fish could be eaten by smaller marine birds for much less time.
For instance, adult sockeye and pink salmon have well-developed gill rakers and feed largely on zooplankton, whereas chinook and coho salmon have poorly developed gill rakers and feed almost entirely on fish.
Ecology and behavior of juvenile sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in Bristol Bay and the eastern Bering Sea.
The effect or temperature on the cruising speed of young sockeye and coho salmon.
Juvenile sockeye salmon are between 8 and 14 cm long when they enter the Bering Sea between late May and early July.
Ogi and Tsujita (1973) mentioned that competition seemed to exist between murres and juvenile sockeyesalmon for euphausiids in the eastern Bering Sea.
Pink and chum salmon enter the sea at a smaller size than sockeye salmon and would be vulnerable to predation both by a greater variety of marine birds and for a longer period of time.
They found juvenile sockeye salmon in the stomachs of murres captured in gill nets in the eastern Bering Sea.
Distribution and numbers of birds observed in Bristol Bay along seaward migration route of sockeye salmon (from Bartonek and Gibson 1972).
Distribution of juvenile sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay and the eastern Bering Sea (adapted from Straty 1974).
The numbers of juvenile sockeye salmon migrating seaward from the Bristol Bay region of the Bering Sea in a single year has ranged between 46.
Then we drifted into talk of thesockeye and of the hyiu chickimin the Indians would get.
The Lost Salmon Run Great had been the "run," and the sockeyeseason was almost over.
Then we drifted into talk of the sockeye run and of the hyiu chickimin the Indians would get.
Coyote at once caught great numbers of sockeye and king salmon.
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